ASSOCIATION FOR IRANIAN STUDIES انجمن ایران پژوهی http://associationforiranianstudies.org AIS Newsletter | Volume 42, Number 1 | April 2021 PRESIDENT’S ADDRESS Dear AIS Members, As I write these words, we have entered the second year of a global pandemic that has affected all of us in a myriad of ways. Many have been separated from loved ones suddenly and unexpectedly, many have lived in fear of illness or the illness of their families, many have been deeply and negatively impacted—financially, mentally, physically. This note from me to you though is a hopeful one for as Hafez said: رسید مژده که ایام غم نخواهد ماند/چنان مناند چنین نیز نخواهد ماند I was lucky enough to take the reins of our association from Prof. Cam Amin who led AIS with vision and humor under the most difficult of circumstances. Thanks to his efforts and that of our Treasurer, James Gustafson, our association has found itself in good financial shape. My goal is to use this stability to support initiatives that will buoy our community of scholars, particularly our graduate students and early career colleagues who have been conducting research and producing scholarship in extraordinary circumstances including a lack of access to archives and field sites. To this end, with Council’s support, we have begun a series of webinars called Presidential Sessions, the goal of which is to provide information about professionalization in Iranian Studies and to also highlight various aspects of the state of our field. Our first session in March 2021, conceived and organized by our Student Council members, focused on publishing in Iranian Studies and was a great success, paving the way for more similar events in the coming months. I have also convened a mentorship task force comprised of both junior and senior scholars to find ways to pool our association’s resources and link our global community to each other. Our hope is to further cement a model of scholarship in Iranian Studies that is collaborative and supportive. The current year has also seen the fruition of a number of developments that had begun under my predecessor, including, but not limited to, the creation of the AIS Committee for Academic Freedom with the goal of safeguarding the freedom of inquiry and expression for our members as well as other scholars in the field of Iranian studies, and the start of Prof. Sussan Siavoshi’s term as Editor-in-Chief of our flagship journal Iranian Studies. On behalf of us all, I’d like to take this opportunity to thank Prof. Ali Gheissari for his Association for Iranian Studies Founded in 1967 AIS 2021 OFFICERS AIS Newsletter | Volume 42, Number 1 | April 2021 EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE CONT’D Freedom Task Force, which based its recommendations on a survey of our 2021 PRESIDENT’S ADDRESS membership along with a study of how other academic societies undertake this work. These recommendations were reviewed and approved by Council in its May 2020 NAGHMEH SOHRABI incomparable leadership of the journal over the past several years, PRESIDENT quarterly meeting. BRANDEIS UNIVERSITY extend our community’s best wishes to Prof. Siavoshi, and express our gratitude to colleagues who serve the Iranian Studies community in a SUSSAN SIAVOSHI The new AIS-CAF website is housed on our website under Resources and JOURNAL EDITOR vast number of ways, often without any recognition or compensation. can be directly accessed here: TRINITY UNIVERSITY RIVANNE SANDLER I would like to end by emphasizing two important ways in which https://associationforiranianstudies.org/about-ais-caf EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR we can all get involved in our association: renewal of membership, and, UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO as importantly, voting. Someone once said that decisions are made by AIS-CAF draws its mandate from Council-approved bylaws and guidelines, JAMES GUSTAFSON those who show up and these two pathways are the most important TREASURER which will also be made available on the website. As a sign of Council support for this INDIANA STATE UNIVERSITY ways in which you can be part of the decisions that will be made on important work, we have also approved a budget for AIS-CAF to allow for independent behalf of us all. Be it elections for Council or President, or referendums CAMRON MICHAEL AMIN investigations of cases if and when needed. Additionally, Council unanimously voted PAST-PRESIDENT on various types of initiatives required by our bylaws, by being a member to keep the identities of AIS-CAF members known only to AIS Council. This move UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN-DEARBORN and by voting, you can help make this association a positive force in was necessary in order to ensure the safety of AIS-CAF members considering your own and others’ intellectual world. I implore all of you to do so when current political sensitivities. Presently, the CAF committee consists of dedicated, the time comes. thoughtful, and well informed AIS members. Their knowledge of Iranian Studies and its unique set of challenges make them extremely qualified to serve. Any concerned COUNCIL Best Wishes, party can contact the committee to bring cases to their attention via the link provided 2021 on the website. Naghmeh Sohrabi NAGHMEH SOHRABI President, Association for Iranian Studies RIVANNE SANDLER On behalf of the Council, I would like to thank our members who requested JAMES GUSTAFSON the creation of CAF at our general meeting in November 2019 and the Academic MATTHEW P. CANEPA ROSE WELLMAN Freedom Task Force who worked hard to create a detailed set of bylaws and HOSNA SHEIKHOLESLAMI President’s Announcement of 11 February 2021 guidelines for it. Our deepest gratitude goes to the members of AIS-CAF whose FATEMEH SHAMS KHODADAD REZAKHANI willingness to serve without recognition and accolades is a reflection of their LIOR STERNFELD Dear AIS Members, commitment to academic freedom for everyone in our community and beyond. LEILA ZONOUZI ROWENA ABDUL RAZAK CAMRON MICHAEL AMIN Greetings and I hope you and your loved ones are well and in health Naghmeh Sohrabi during these difficult times. President, Association for Iranian Studies Since taking over in December 2020 as president of our FOR PAST COUNCILS AND association, I have been working with our Council to create a number of BOARDS, PLEASE VISIT: new programs aimed at further supporting our members, in addition to bringing to fruition a series of initiatives that were set in motion during the tenure of previous president, Prof. Camron Amin. I will be informing The AIS Committee for Academic Freedom has issued letters and statements on HTTP://ASSOCIATIONFORIRANIANSTUDIES.ORG/ ABOUT/OFFICERS/2020 you of these exciting programs and initiatives in the coming weeks. behalf of Fariba Adelkhah, Touraj Amini, and the state of academic freedom in Iran as it applies particularly to Haleh Lajevardi. In the meantime, I am pleased to announce that the AIS Committee for Academic Freedom has already been formed and begun its important The letters can be accessed at: work. As you know from Prof. Amin’s announcement on June 1, 2020, https://associationforiranianstudies.org/about-ais-caf/ais-caf-letters AIS-CAF was created through the recommendations of the Academic and https://associationforiranianstudies.org/about-ais-caf/ais-caf-statements 2 3 ISIS Newsletter Volume 46, Number 2 March 2013 AIS Newsletter | Volume 42, Number 1 | April 2021 • PALMIRA BRUMMETT: Giovanni-Tomasso Minadoi, Translation (in 1595) by JOURNAL NEWS Abraham Hartwell, The War between the Turks and the Persians: Conflict and Religion in the Safavid and Ottoman Worlds IRANIAN STUDIES | Volume 53, Numbers 5-6, September–December 2020 • H. E. CHEHABI: Morgane Humbert, Diplomatie nippo-iranienne: Enjeu énergétique et interférences américaines: Concilier l’inconciliable EDITORIAL NOTE (ALI GHEISSARI) • ROMAN SIEBERTZ: Younes Jalali, Taghi Erani, a Polymath in Interwar Berlin: Fundamental Science, Psychology, Orientalism, and Political Philosophy ARTICLES • NAVID DARVISHZADEH: Nafiseh Sharifi,Female Bodies and Sexuality in Iran and • YOONES DEHGHANI FARSANI AND KIANOOSH REZANIA: Ibn al-Malāhimi on the Search for Defiance Zoroastrianism • CLAUDIA YAGHOOBI: Azadeh Fatehrad, The Poetics and Politics of the Veil in • LOUISE MARLOW: Translation of the Words of ‘Ali b. Abi Tālib in Early Fourteenth- Iran: An Archival and Photographic Adventure Century Iran: A Local Bilingual Network • MARIE OSTBY: Mehraneh Ebrahimi, Women, Art, and Literature in the Iranian Diaspora • JAMES WHITE: On the Road: The Life and Verse of Mir Zeyn al-Din ‘Eshq, a • LARS MÜLLER: Fatemeh Kamali-Chirani, Does Intercultural Dialogue Matter? The Forgotten Eighteenth-Century Poet Role of Intercultural Dialogue in the Foreign Cultural Policy of Iran and Germany • WENDY DESOUZA: Race, Slavery and Domesticity in Late Qajar Chronicles • NIMROD ZAGAGI: An Oasis of Radicalism: The Labor Movement in Abadan in the 1940s IN MEMORIAM • GOULIA GHARDASHKHANI: Narrative Geometry in ʿAli Reza Gholami’s Divar (The • JALEH AMOUZEGAR: Badr al-Zamān Qarib (b. Tehran, 23 August 1929, d. Tehran, Wall): New Developments in Iranian War Literature 28 July 2020): Author and Translator, Linguist, Expert in Soghdian, Iranologist • FATEMEH SHAMS: Dialogues with the Dead: Necropoetics of Zahra’s Paradise • ROBERT HILLENBRAND: Abdullah Ghouchani (b. Baghdad, 11 August 1948, d. • AARÓN RODRÍGUEZ SERRANO: Structures in Crisis: A Narrative Approach to Tehran, 7 August 2020): Epigrapher, Expert in Medieval Arabic and Persian Asghar Farhadi’s Films Inscriptions • THIERRY COVILLE: The Family Business in Iran since the Islamic Revolution as a • ALI GHEISSARI: Reza Banakar (b. Shiraz, 1959–d. Lund, 28 August 2020): Mode of Coordination Professor of Legal Sociology and Scholar of the Iranian Legal Culture • SIMON THEOBALD: “We Deserve Better”: Ideologies of Deservingness and Status in the Interpretation of Chinese Goods in an Iranian Bazaar RECENT TITLES IN IRANIAN STUDIES • Books in Persian and Arabic PRIMARY SOURCES, ARCHIVAL NOTES • Titles in European Languages • ANDRÁS BARATI: An Early Decree of Nādir Shāh Concerning the vaqf of Ardabil Presently Iranian Studies has a strong reserve of material on its online edition that REVIEW ESSAYS were processed by the outgoing editorial office.